Archive – January, 2016

Both Moraig and Debbie, who care for patients out of hospital, went to a prestigious ceremony in London to be presented with awards for commitment to nursing and for work mentoring junior nurses. Moraig, who is based at Billingham Health Centre, has worked as a nurse for more than 30 years and has been a […]

If you want to hear about community services, then please come along to our member event on; Saturday, 30 January, 9.30am – 11.30am in the Tees meeting room, rear of the Tees Restaurant at the University Hospital of North Tees. Free parking will be available. Refreshments and market place stalls showcasing community services will be […]

Mealtime companions can make a real difference by encouraging patients to eat, serving meals and assisting patients and making it an enjoyable and social experience. Ian Fraser, an IT analyst at the trust, volunteered as a mealtime companion following the experience he had caring for his father. He said: “My dad suffered from Parkinson’s disease […]

The new videoconferencing screens mean consultants can assess patients and scans as soon as they are produced, no matter where they are. A nurse in the stroke unit can use the camera on the device, meaning the patient can be assessed by a stroke consultant from home, in the same way that they would if […]

This means that licensed fertility treatments will no longer be provided, however the trust will still be providing some general infertility treatments. The trust will be working with other service providers to look at the way services are provided in the future and to ensure that patients continue to receive appropriate treatment. The decision has […]

Dear patient Junior Doctor Industrial Action – January 2016 The British Medical Association (BMA) has announced that junior doctors will be taking industrial action on 12 January 2016. The action on 12 January is not a full strike as junior doctors will be staffing our Accident and Emergency department on that day, but all other […]

The advanced 3T Magnetom Skyra MRI scanner was opened in the summer as part of a £1.6million investment by the trust and Alliance Medical. Since then a whole range of MRI imaging has been carried out, but only recently has the scanner been used for the treatment of cardiac patients. Consultant cardiologist, Dr Nic Child: […]

The state of the art EarlySense monitors, distributed by BES Healthcare, are positioned under a patient bed mattress and can measure a patient’s heart and breathing rate and any movement. When a patient’s condition deteriorates an alert is sent to their allocated nurses through a bleep and also to the central monitor at the nurses’ […]

While many of the people we are seeing have complex illnesses where they need to be admitted to hospital, we want to make sure people are treated in the right place, so that our staff can concentrate on looking after the seriously ill or injured. People can help us by: working with us to help […]

Andy Simpson, clinical director for accident and emergency at the University Hospital of North Tees said: “We’ve seen a number of people being admitted into a hospital bed as a result of taking too much paracetamol for things like toothache. “Taking too much can be life-threatening. It can cause serious liver and kidney problems and […]